The Tatmadaw usurped power in Myanmar through a coup in February 2021. In the two and a half years since, India has been tolerant of the junta and hasn’t yet interacted with the pro-democracy National Unity Government (NUG). Further, in taking a “business as usual” approach in the interest of certain geostrategic calculations, India has effectively also offered support to […]

The outbreak of Israel-Hamas hostilities, following the latter’s deadly raid on 7 October 2023, has sparked never-before-seen violence in the Gaza Strip. The involvement of external powers, coupled with the regional powers’ pursuit of geopolitical ambitions through proxies, threatens the fragile stability of West Asia. However, beyond the geopolitical implications lurks the threat of terrorist violence and radicalisation as a […]

“Those at particular risk are civil society activists, journalists, human rights defenders, former government officials and security force members, and of course women and girls as a whole, who, as a result of the abhorrent policies currently in place in Afghanistan, are banned from secondary and tertiary education, working in many sectors and other aspects of daily and public life.” […]

Since their return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban have managed to reach an understanding with most of the Central Asian governments to preserve a relative calm along the areas of the Afghan-Central Asian frontier. Disputes over water use have suddenly become an issue that could derail ties between Afghanistan and Central Asian states. Specifically, the construction […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko met in Beijing on Monday, December 4. Lukashenko described the visit to Beijing as “working”, and Xi received him at the Diaoyutai state residence in the western suburbs of the capital. The “working lunch” lasted for three hours of talks between the two leaders. The great importance of the meeting […]

Henry Kissinger, the best-known American diplomat of modern times, is deeply associated in the Indian mind with the tumultuous events of 1971 – Pakistan Army’s brutal crackdown on the people of East Pakistan, the intensification of the secessionist movement there and India’s military intervention that helped create Bangladesh. Kissinger’s tilt to Pakistan and his insensitivity to the suffering of the […]

The Acting Minister of Interior Affairs Sirajuddin Haqqani met with the special representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan on Wednesday where a range of issues were discussed. According to the ministry, both parties discussed relations between the two countries, security issues, the development of trade relations, and Russia’s support for Afghanistan in regional and international forums. Haqqani in turn […]

The Acting Minister of Defense Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid on Wednesday visited the general command of the Afghan Air Force and met with officials, employees, pilots, engineers, technicians and other force members. Addressing the air force personnel, he said: “It is true that we have problems, but our air force has the ability to defend their territory and they will be […]

Acting Minister of National Defense Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said Thursday that no fundamental development was carried out in Afghanistan over the 20 years under the republic system. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Kabul University students, Yaqoob Mujahid said that infrastructure built by the US in that time was temporary and for their use only. He said however that Afghanistan […]

Pakistan’s army chief is in Washington this week seeking U.S. assistance against what Islamabad alleges are terrorist havens in neighboring Afghanistan. General Asim Munir is trying to convince U.S. security and defense officials that militant groups such as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State’s Khorasan offshoot (IS-K) pose a threat not only to Pakistan but also to U.S. and global […]